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...y inspecting the stack, we can find the program pointer of the call site and then find the patchpoint descriptor?) * Now, for the GC, if I understand correctly, instead of declaring a variable as a root, you can declare explicitly the safepoints by using patchpoints with something like patchpoint ID_safepoint_17, suspendTheThreadForCollection, list of the alloca (or registers) that contains objects Then in the suspendTheThreadForCollection, we can see that we are coming for the safepoint_17 and then find the locations of the objects? If a patchpoint can work like this, it's probably a good building bl...

I'm moving this to a different thread. I think the newly proposed intrinsic definitions and their current implementation are valuable regardless of how it gets tied into GC... On Oct 22, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Philip R <listmail at philipreames.com> wrote: > Adding Gael as someone who has previously discussed vmkit topics on the list. Since I'm assuming this is where the GC support

Adding Gael as someone who has previously discussed vmkit topics on the list. Since I'm assuming this is where the GC support came from, I wanted to draw this conversation to the attention of someone more familiar with the LLVM implementation than myself. On 10/22/13 4:18 PM, Andrew Trick wrote: > On Oct 22, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Filip Pizlo <fpizlo at apple.com > <mailto:fpizlo